I'd like to see corporations able to be tried as people. 5 year jail sentence = 5 year government ownership.

Tie it to GDP and use it to make sure no companies get too big to fail so we don't need to socialize the risk. It'll also assure that there's competition.

I think we're both somewhat sarcastic, but there is a certain beauty to using it as a way to foster competition and reduce the need for bail outs.

I'm not into socialism, but I'm not convinced it's worse than 1 company having control of what's today's entire GDP in the relatively short term. And that's what SpaceX is claiming they'll have in the case for their valuation.

I'm pretty sure a data center cutoff is bad on an under voltage too.

1) grid under supplies and voltage drops
2a) grid requests more power from flexible (gas) plants
2b) HUGE customers completely cut their draw
3) more power with less demand causes huge over voltage

Is Twitter operating just as well?

The gutted moderation lead to a lot less advertisers bidding on views.

The unreliability of the service during the transition to being so far reduced dramatically reduced the number of daily users.

The company isn't public, so we don't know if it's making more/losing less money than it was. But we can be pretty certain that the operations are not the same (reduced users less money per user).

They probably didn't want to do a large build if it's 30% price increase on a years old device.

You need to dock it to do work.

But a sub $50 dongle on a desk with a monitor, mouse, and keyboard you're good to go.

In that sense it's sort of less portable than a laptop (need the work desk reserved for it), but in other ways it's more portable (smaller and lighter). The same device can dock at a TV and be a console, or dock at a desk and be an office PC. It's pretty convenient if you have multiple use spaces that are fixed. It's very inconvenient to take to the cafe and work.

and yet the only photo is clearly not a steam deck.

Seems as likely planted misinformation as real.

I doubt the price will come back down.

It'll stay this price until the deck 2 comes out, and the deck 2 will release at this price (Valve has basically said they were shocked to learn that people wanted to spend more on more powerful devices than the steam deck, but people did).

You can definitely see it in stores though.

When it gets dark at 5ish people seem to go home and then stay home.

When it gets dark at 8 or 9ish people seem to go home and then maybe go do a chore or go to a bar or something.

I'm skeptical for it leading to extra retail shopping though (rather than time shifting away from the weekends). You can definitely see the difference in restaurants/bars though.

It tends to be the weeks where people come home to light or just dusk and it quickly gets dark most impacted (early spring/late fall).

$100k gives a lot of space to pay people for 2 weeks.

Is google really that much better of a gatekeeper?

Somebody's gonna gatekeep what of the 1000x more content you see.

I really like how they summed it up at the end though "that was terrible". At least they were self aware. I feel sorry for anyone that needs to watch 90 minutes of it.

Generally IPOs don't have great 1 year performance (as pre IPO investors cash out).

This is the reason that indexes usually wait (and have rules about it). Not wanting to be forced to buy in at the IPO price is pretty reasonable.

Nothing to do with Musk or SpaceX.

An OS costs under $200 in 2026 dollars.

Seems to have gotten pretty cheap.